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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,

Ordinary microscopes do not admit oil
distinct reflections beyond 1900, 900 oil
an inch, but Professors Abncr and Scott
Of Jena University have perfected an
instrument that will render 1904, 7OO,-
900 of an inch perfectly visible.
An English milling engineer says that
majority of the s, 900 Touring mills in
the United Kingdom contain machinery
of foreign make, usually American or
German, because it works better than
that made in England.
1t is suggested by Bucholtz, of Berlin,
that tho presence of ilcecy rounded
cirrus clouds denotes highly electrical
condition of tho upper atmosphere, a
mouthful Of cigar smoke being found to
assume The same aspect when near a
charged elcctrophorus.
In the extensive oyster culture expert
mcnts of the United States government
particular attention is being given to
methods for preserving the young. Wire
baskets three feet square and six inches
deep are used for collecting the spat,
which adhere closely to the sides and
bottom, this device enabling the opc a.
tors to prevent the accumulation of mud
the great foe Of the oyster industry, by
frequent shakings OF the baskets. An
average oyster is expected to yield 49,
900, 900 young.
Eight years Of almost continuous per-
sonal experiment has confirmed the early
view of DR.. ]. M. Andcrs that house
plants are entitled to very high rank
among sanitary agents, In a new work
he even asserts the conviction that liv-
ing plants serve as an efficient protection
against consumption of the lungs, besides
rendering important service in other
conditions Of disease. An abundance of
flow ers, indeed, seems to offer an i'm
ferfcct substitute for outdoor life when
indoor life is unavoidable.
With regard to glacier ice, curious
speculation has recently been made &C.
cording to which the Alctsch glacier,
situated between the Jungfrau and the
valley of the Hautc Rhonc if it were
cut into blocks of the size of the Paris
Bourse, and these blocks were put side
by side, would furnish sufficient ice to
form double ring round the earth
along the equator. Most of the Swiss
glaciers are far too difficult of access to
make it probable that they should ever
be utilized for industrial pusposcs.
The fact has been satisfactorily cstab-
lishcd by various scientific researches,
that many substances absorb luminous
rays during the day, and at night emit
these rays in such manner as to impress
Photographic plates, although they may
not be pcrccptible to the unaided eye.
Artists have not only succeeded in
photographng the visible night phos.
phorcsccnce of Mont BIancs summit,
but have even secured an impression of
a midnight landscape - invisible to
the eye the terrace of the observa.
tory at Prague.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

"Gauzo" derives its name from GAIA,
where it was first made.
C@sars laconic despatch, "ceni, cidi,
rici," was inspired by the rapidity with
which he had overcome Pharmacies.
1t is but twenty-five years since tho
war was ended, but in that time $780,
7O7, 050 20 have been discussed by the
Pension Office.
The University of Oxford was founded
in the ninth century. The earliest Ger
man university was that at Preyon
founded in 1850.
The word quintal, another form oil
GENITAL, is derived from the Arabic kin
tar, which is a modification of the Latin
rentum, hundred.
The house of Hapsburg, the present
ruling family of Austria, came to the
front with Rudolph l., King of Ger
many, in the thirteenth century.
The value of human life, estimated
from life assurance and wage statistics,
is $l4, 600. The value, however is not
realized without work and growth.
The longest tunnel in the world, which
has taken over century to construct,
has been lately completed. 1t is at
Schcmnitz, in Hungary, and is 1927
miles long.
A "fnd" in Sweden lately consisted
of a wooden coffin containing body
wrapped in a woven material. The
''fnd" dates from the bronze age and is
the first of its kind made in that country
NJ. Gossc has, it is said, found means
to restore tho life-like expression to the
eyes of dead bodies. IIc places a few
drops Of glyccrine and water on the cor
nea, and lifelike expression is repro.
duccd.
The most powerful telescopes now il
use magnify 1000 times. As the moon
is 24O, 900 miles from the earth, it is thus
practically brought to within 800 miles,
at which distance the snowy peaks of
several lunar mountains are distinctly
visible.
Jcrcmc Miller, of jackson, Mich, has
a thrcc-ycar- old son whose constant com.
panion is lighted corn cob pipe filled
with strong tobacco. He puifs it with
great relish, having found the tobacco
habit through sucking old clay pipes
given him to play with.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
Sheep Improve the Land.

Sheep effect very marked improve
ment in pastures. Pastures which have
become so thoroughly run out and over
run by briers and bushes as not to be
worth fencing for cattle pasture, by be-
ing given over to the sheep for few
years, will be brought into Il productive
condition. Any pasture used for cattle
and horses may protltably have as many
sheep added to the stock as there arc
acres in the posture, and the pasture will
be benefited thereby. Sheep cat so
many kinds of plants which cattle and
horses refuse, that the addition Of few
sheep, by keeping down those plants
which other stock refuse, really increases
the product of grasses for other stock.
- Northeastern Farmer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Fashion Notes.

Inc gypsy nat Is popular Tor young
ladies.
Yoke neck frocks are coming in
vogue.
The opal and the moonstone are num-
bcred with fashionable stones.
The favorte sash ribbons are made of
moirc having fan picot edges.
Apron draperies, both long and short,
appear upon many of the new dresses.
Babies long frocks must measure for
ty-two inches from the neck, to the hem.
Bonncts of white, pale pink, mauve
and white plush are worn in the evening.
Round yokes and long sleeves are the
arbitrary rule for babies frocks on all
occasions.
The spanglcs on gauzy evening fans
are of small size in silver, gold and
colorcd metal.
Evening coiffurcs are ornamented with
pompons of feathers, flowers and beads,
lace and ribbon.
Plaid woo,cn materials arc used in
combination with striped and checked
fabrics for dresses for misses.
Jewclled combs in miniature sizes are
used on hairpins for evening wear, as
are flower patterns set with gems.
Grape and crepe lissc fans, bordercd
with lace and spangled with silver and
gold, are very pretty and effective.
Baby's toilet basket is now mounted
on rattan Or white willow stand, lined
with china silk, and profusely decorated
with tinted ribbon.
The newest cloaks for little girls have
waists reaching only to the armpits, more
like deep yoke than waist, and skirts
falling TO the ankles.
Brooches and earrings are being made
more and more to serve as sets, though it
cannot be said that sets have yet regained
their old. time popularity.
Drawn work, hcmsttching, bricr and
feather stitching, embroidery, lace and
tucks adorn the long pretty first dresses
of the baby of the present.
Paletots or coats for little girls look
stylish with hood of the material hang
ing down the back, richly lined and
waistcoat to match in the front.
Lyons silks, made up with broad vel.
vet stripes of contrasting or harmonic
ing color, are selected as the material for
evening dresses for elderly ladies.
Silk pompons appears conspicuously
anong the fancy trimmings Of the present
season. They are used at the ends of
sashcs, bonnet strings, etc, and are even
used as trimming for waists and sleeves.
Bead trimmings are more fashionable
and more beautiful than ever They
may be procured il sets, including
panel for the skirt, plastron collar and
ornaments for the oorsagc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Cowboy Language.

The cowboys have language Of their
own which no "tcndcrfoot" may attain
unto until no has served his novitiate.
They call horse hcrder a "horse
wrangler," and horse breaker "bron-
cho buster" Their stced is often a
"cayuse, and to dress we'll is to rag
proper" When cowboy goes out Oh
the prairie he "hits the flat" Whiskcy
is "family disturbance" and to eat is to
"chew." His hat is "cady," his whip
"quirt," his rubber coat "slicker,"
his leather overalls are ''chaps' or "chap'
perals," and his revolver is as"
Bacon is Overland trout" and unbrand.
cd cattle arc mavericks"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Apachcs Receiving Supplies,

The flour is poured into the centre of
deer skin, and the hide gathered to-
gcthcr; string is tied around it, and
on top Of that goes the sugar; and so on.
Salt, coffee, and such smaller things are
tied up in corner of her waist or skirt
and on emerging from the line a squaw
frequently has the major portion of her
clothing used up in such ways. 1t gives
her an odd appearance, but has one ad-
vantagc--shc can't, like her civilized
sister, lay it down on the counter and
forget it. or leave it in the street car on
her way home.
And such noisy, busy scene! What
ever may be the characteristics Of other
tribes Of Indians the Apaches are lively
and laxative. The men, as rule, have
good full voices, and those OF the squaws
are most musical, albeit trihe high
pitched. They love to blarncy, as an
Jrishman would say, and constant
stream OF chaff and shrieks of laughter
is kept up as they pass along the row of
windows. Everything is laughed at.
One poor old thing, in tying up the
sugar in her dress loses the ends, and
away it goes to the ground amid perfect
torrents of laughter and fun. No one
cffers to help her as she scrapes it care
fully up, but she good-.naturcdly joins
in the general laughter, and hastens to
regain her place in the line. To all this
din add the dogs, boys and ponies, and
you almost have a pandcmonium-bur-
ros braying, colts calling to their
mothers, lost TO them in the crowd, and
the ponies themselves fighting and
stamping at the flies. -[Overland
Monthly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Beauty ofChinese Costume,

One oriental damscl who was airing
herself and her tincry simultaneously
yesterday afternoon on Dupont street,
wore pale blue silk coat with huge
funnel. like sleeves trimmed with black
and pale yellow silk braid Her trousers
were of black silk, also bordcred with
pale yellow; her boat-ikc sabots were
embroidered with blue silk, and the
deep white soes provided an area of
about three square inches for the maid to
stand erect upon. Another celestial
maiden was similarly dressed, except that
that garment which among Christians is
peculiar to males, was agorgcous orange
silk, and her stockings, evidently of
American make, were of red silk with
clocks up the side. A third girl wore an
azure blue skirt, crimson coat and
bright green pants. Still another wore
a pale violet cloak over a dark blue
blouse, her pants also being green.
A very brilliant costume was GRIM
son silk coat with broad band Of green
and red embroidery runningal around
the skirts, neck and sleeves; the pants
were bright blue, and shoes prettiIy
embroidered in pink and rgold. A pale
blue cloak, violet pants with yellow
trimmings, pearl beaded head dress and
finely worked silver bangles on wrists
and ankles formed the principal features
Of the costume of a small Mongol maiden,
who held in her hand the diminutivc
queue Of her small brother, who trottcd
before her.
The boy was hardly less attractivcly
dressed, and his pale pink silk round hat
was decorated with a bright red silk
knob and huge tasscl of the same ma
terial and colOr.-[San Francisco Chron-
iclc.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

Don't compel your horses to cat musty
hay. 1t will produce fatal lung trouble,
and, in any event, heaves.
No oil pcnetrates wood so well as
crude petroleum, none Is so cheap, and
none so effective as preservatve.
Prof. Cook of Lansing, Mich, has
killed cabbage worms with mixture of
one pound of bubach with 200 gallons
of water.
One use for old tin cans is to cut them
up into strips two or three inches wide
and tack them over mouse holes in the
house or barn.
1t has been shown by experience that
pig digcsts a larger percentage of
grain, converting it into animal increase,
than steer, COW or sheep.
A Connecticut farmer is credited with
shooting hogs in the forehead with q
small rifle, which he considers the most
humane method of slaughter.
1t seems to be admitted that one can
breed for eggs just as one can breed for
milk or butter An egg from a good
layer will be more likely to produce a
good layer than an egg from poor
layer.
One thing appears to have been pretty
well demonstrated on the Rural's expert
ment grounds, viz: "That a larger
quantity of potatoes, as well as potatoes
of better quality, can be raised with
chemical fertilizers than with manure"
An excellent mixture Of hay for oil
classes of stock is onc-third clover hay
with timothy and redtop, which is much
better than either one alone, as the mix
ture is moro complete in food elements.
It should be fed with an allowance of
ground grain also.
Several correspondents state that dis
ease among swine is checked by change
of pasture and food. One in Davis
county, Ia, says: Hogs are fed on
blue grass until ready for fattening,
when they are corn-fcd, which probably
Is the reason for their exemption from
disease.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Turkish Coin bracelets.

Tho handsome bracelets and necklaces
which Turkish ladies wear, composed Of
ancient coins of gold, form one Of their
richest and most characteristic orna.
mcnts. AS these coins arc scarce, and
as the taste for this style of ornament is
ever increasing, certain adventures have
had coins made in Europe Of bascr
metals, which, in Turkey, they sell as
genuine. In Anatolia and elsewhere
they have driven q prosperous trade in
this way. But the government has now
prohibited the sale of these sham coins
and ordered the seizure OF such as may
be now offered for purchase.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Useful and HurtfnI Medicine.

There Is a certain clas OF remedies for con.
btlpation absolutely useless. These are bouses
and pot ons made In great part of podophyl-
lin, aloes, rhubarb, gambogo and other worth
less ingredients. The damage they do 10 the
stomachs OF those who use them is incalcula-
ble They eyacuate the bowels, II Is true, but
always do 80 violently and profusely, and be-
side, grippe the bowels. Their effect Is to
weaken both them and the stomach. Better
far TO use the agreeable and salutary aperlcnt
Hostetter's stomach Bltters, the laxative effect
OF which is never proceed dby pain, or accom-
panied bya convulsjve, violent action OF The
bowels. On the contrary, II invigOrates those
organs, the stomach and tho eptre system.
Asa nsof curing and preventing malarlal
fever5, no medicine can compare with IL, and
II remedies nervous debility Irhcumatisni, Kid.
ney and bladder inactivity, and other inor-
panic ailments
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
How We Taste

Strictly speaking, with the tip of the
tongue, one can't really taste at all. If
you put small drop of honey or oil of
bitter almonds on that part of the mouth,
you will find, no doubt to your great
surprise, that it produces no effect of
any sort; you only taste it when it be-
gins slowly to dilfusc itself, and reaches
the true tasting region in the middle
distance. Bat if you put little cay
cnne or mustard on the same part you
will find that it bites you Immediately
the experiment should be tried sparing-
ly-whilc if you put it lower down in
the mouth you will swallow it almost
without noticing the pungcncy of the
stlmulant The reason is that the tip of the
tongue is supplied only with the nerves,
which are really nerves of touch, not
nerves of taste proper; they belong to
totally different main branch, and they
go to different center in the brain, to-
gethcr with the very similar threads
which supply the nerve of smell TO
mustard and pepper. That il why the
smell and taste of these pungcnt sub
stances are SO much alike as everybody
must have noticed, good sniff at a
mustard pot producing almost the same
irritating effects as an incautious mouth
full. When one is trying deliberate cx-
periments on the subject, in order to test
the varying scnsitiveness Of the different
parts to different substances, 1t is neccs-
sary to keep the tongue quito dry in
order to isolate the thing you are expert
menting with and prevent its spreading
to all parts of the mouth together. In
actual practice this result is obtained in
rather ludicrous manner-by blowing
upon the tongue between each expert
mcnt with pair of bellows. To such
undignified expedients does the pursuit
Of science lead the modern psychologist.
Il Journal of Commerce.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
An Ant One ton.

"Do you know why girl is called a
BELIEF" asked Harlem girl of her BASH
full lover.
mo; can't imagine" was the reply.
"Bccausc it is proper to ring her."
Invitations will be out next week. -
[Tid-Bits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Tie Difference

"What's the difference between a
piano and gun, Charlcy9" asked
young wife of her non musical husband
"A gun kills the quickest, that's all, !"
was the staccato response. Il Dansville
Breeze.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

"Tsn't that Mrs Holmes? I thought the
doctors gave her up. She looks well now"
she Is well. Alter tho doctors gave up her
case she tried Dr. PierCe's 'Favorte PresCrip
ton and began TO get better right away |
heard her say not long ago that she hadn't felt
so well in twenty years. She does her own
work and says that life seems worth living at
last. why said she, 4 feel as if | had been
raised from the dead. almost Thus do thou
sands att est the marvellous efficacy of this God
given remedy for Tomato we ltn sss prolnpsus,
liberation, lcucOrrhcea, morning sickness,
weakness Of stomach, tendency to cancerous
disease, nervous prostration, general debility
and kindred affections.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
The Most Troublesome.

Dilby-"Well, Filtrip, you've been on
a farm for several years-what is the
most troublesome thing you've ever tried
to raisc2"
Filtrip (who is hopclessly in debit
"Wby, the most troublesome, unproflta-
bic thing I've tried to raise is n mort,
gaoe. n-TFree Press,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

Though they Ind u short crop tho Iowa
farmers last year raised corn enough to
fat en- 10000 steers ut 30 bushels per steer;
5000 900 hog at 0 bushels per head,and then
have 100000 )J bushels left for &c era use,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

As n result OF he wholesale destruction
NJ birds for orna ent purposes, lcports
Insects in that st to u.s. season were greater
than ever before known,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Suffering Womanho0d.

Too much effort cannot be made to bring
to the attention Of suffering womanhood the
great value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as remedy for the diseases of
women. Such an one is the wife of General
Barringer, of Winston, n. c., and we quote
from the Generals letter as follows: Dear
Mrs Finkham: Please allow me to add my
testimony to the most excellent medicinal
qualities of your Vegetable Compound. Mrs.
Barringer was treated for several years for
what the physician called Leucorrhua and
Prolapsus Uteri combined. l sent her to
Richmond, Va, where shc remained for six
months under the treatment Of an eminent
physician without any permanent benefit
She was induced to try Your medicine and
after a reasonable time commenced to I'M
prove and is now able to attend to her bust
moss and considers herself fully relisUed."
General Barringer is the proprietor of the
American Hotel, Winston, N, c., and is
widely known
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Raising Young Turkeys.

The hardest task the farmers wife is
called upon to perform is to raise the
young turkeys. 1t is not difficult to
hatch them, as the turkey hen is a per-
sistent sitter and does her duty faith
fully, while the eggs arc nearly always
fertile. A single union of the gobblcr
and hen will fertilizc all the eggs the
hen may lay during the season. Like
the human being, the turkey is very
feeble and tender when young, but
hardy when maturcd. The most impor-
tant matter is 10 never allow them to
get wet. They must not even be allowed
on damp ground, especially at night.
Keep them, with the hen, in a roomy run,
dry, and sheltered from winds for q
week. Then let them out on clear days
after the dew is off in the morning,
and get them up carly at night. Feed
on ground oats anu milk, cooked to-
gethcr as bread, with chopped onion in
it, and give finely chopped meat and
bone meal at least once day. Feed
often, and vary the food to anything
they will cat after they are week old,
but always feed meat. Always look out
for lice, as that is often the cause Of
young turkeys dying off. Give chopped
eggs the first two days, in addition TO
the other food, but give nothing the first
thirty-six hours. Do not let the hen
rambIc too far, or tire the young ones.
Watch them closely till they are past
danger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

Delicate diseases Of either sex, however in
duced,, speedily and permanently cured
Book OF particulars 10 cents in stamps. Ad-
dress Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, 603 Main street. Buffalo. N. Y.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

A scicntis sugges that criminals be exc.
nuted by eeetrIcItY. Thls Is shocking.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

The rare nanus cript+ in th' great Paris
library are to be photographed so that they
nay be rcproduc If de troytd.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

The making of artificial leather Is rcporto
from Germany.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

Experiment BY thr win cOrks in tie cur
rent y the Nor h A Ian c made by Admiral
Grye indicated a d lily IA of motion Of
from two to six mile.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02

Illinois, 1t Is said, has no debt and 100000
In the state treasury.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-02
Gold Mines

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you will receive free, full particulars about
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